It is a time-honored tactic of grossly overestimating the capability of your bogeyman in order to secure compliance from the populace for doing what you want to do anyway.
At some point, Saddam had chem/bio weapons. Most of what he had was crude, and his delivery systems were not very effective unless you were in a Kurd village or massed Iranian troops. There are model airplane enthusiasts who can build something more sophisticated that his "drones."
The question is whether the terrorists on 9/11 succeeded beyond their wildest expectations, or whether is was the tip of the iceberg. I tend to believe the former. And if you believe the former, the perpetual war on terror can easily be seen as the best excuse ever devised for a government power grab.
Nomex on.
Never mind that "one vial, one canister, one crate", without a delivery system would do about as much damage as that idiotic cult in Japan and the Nerve gas.
But if the "one vial" theory was really a threat then we would have had "a day of horror like none we have ever known" a long time ago. If this was true? And hundreds and thousands of Americans can be killed by just a vial or canister or crate then why don't we have 120,000 troops checking every cargo container that comes into this country? We check 2% right now! What about the Mexican and Canadian borders? Yeah- right- Homland "security"? Yeah- one vial? What a sickening lie. I am getting mad right now.